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My son and dau in law went to register the birth of their baby and was given a library card for him. It must be a recent thing they started in gloucester as I have two other grandchildren 5 and 2 and neither of them had one.
My son is dyslexlic and he stuggles with reading his 5 yr old stories so he tries to get round it by making them up but she is telling him now "Dad that isnt right it doesnt say that. She will be the one reading bedtime stories to her new brother!
Anne

Kids and books go together like Pooh Bear and his hunny jar ;-),

One thing I never begrudge buying is a book for a child. A library card is a great idea as a gift for a newborn.

It is so very sad that a lot of children get to school with no idea of what a book is, let alone the pleasure of 'escaping' into a story...

I still have my first books, somewhat battered I must admit, won't part with them ever. :-)

What a lovely idea I have not heard anywhere else where this is being done perhaps other council should take it up

I loved my books has I grew up still do and I still have my Hidi and Little Women books

What a brilliant idea. Our grandchildren all love books I am always buying them .

I still have some of my books and all the dozens of books of my son's. I used the library from an early age and so did my son.
I buy a lot of books to take to my partner's children when we visit and only this week I got a message to say how much the 3 yr old lad loves one particular book which is written in rhyme. They are only cheap £1.99 books from Aldi or Lidl but nice stories, often with a little message, like the one about Fairies wearing specs, which would be great for children being teased for wearing specs or classmates to understand and not to tease.

Lizx

It is always worth looking in the charity shops for childrens books. Usually they are very cheap often less than a pound for a book that will have cost so much more. Sadly many of them are like new, possibly given as presents but never even opened and read to the children. Teaching little ones to just sit and look at the pictures is a great start. A grand child took the cardboard nursery rhyme book to her grandfather, gave it to him and made the signs that corresponded to the rhyme, she wanted him to read the rhyme and do the actions!

The only downside of loving books is that I can't bring myself to tear a page out of a magazine so either have to photocopy it or keep the whole thing!

My grandchildren both joined the local library at about 6 months and have been surrounded by books ever since.

Their similar aged cousins didn't. When d-i-l suggested that her sister take them along, the reply was "What's the point? They can't read!" :-( :-(

Why not a Kindle instead?

That's a sad attitude, poor kids.

Jacqueline, I am the same with magazines lol Doesn't help my hoarding problems tho

Lizx

My g.dau expecting her first baby in four weeks and four weeks ago I bought the little 'un his/hers first book. A Potter one - about 6 pages - all very thick but with a brightly coloured wide ribbon to hold which will open a page. Just the thing for tiny fingers.

I encouraged her from a very early age (so did her Mum - she read them to her)
and recall the day I took her aged about 15 mths onto the mobile library and she shrieked 'Books'. Wanted to take about 20 home, reluctantly got 2.

Never alone if you have a book and therein is knowledge.

So true, Chris.

Lizx

Its so important to read to your child, not just fir the story but the together time too,

so many people think reading is just for schools to teach, and it isnt,

i love reading amd often have books half started in various rooms, if im not reading a book its a magazine,

Delighted to see children so young are encouraged to use libraries and the 'story time' they operate.

As a child I had to be aged seven yrs before I could be issued with a library card and then only 2 books per week. As I was in bed for a lot of the time, my mother came to an agreement with the librarian, could change them 3 times per week but this was 'under cover'.

Kindles will never be as good as books for children.

I remember when my grandchildren came back from a week camping. The first thing they did was go into the living room.
A bookcase along one wall had the bottom 3 shelves dedicated to their books. They just pulled them all out and rolled on them - then started reading them. :-D
They had taken a couple of books with them - but not the whole lot!!!

You can't do THAT with a Kindle!!!

I don't buy my grandchildren Easter Eggs - they get book tokens.

My 3yr old grandson loves books. I take him to our library sometimes & he loves it. He has lots of them, I also am always buying them from charity shops. He has his favourites, dinosaur ones at the moment but when I read them to him, I start reading the sentence then stop & he carries on. Of course he can't read but knows the stories off by heart, would never get that interaction with him on Kindle. Love the idea of a Library card when registering a new baby.